I am Soon Van

A web developer and writer from Australia, now living in Kentucky, United States.

• Full stack web development mainly with PHP & MySQL (Kohana MVC, Laravel, Symfony)
• Working remotely with clients and small-to-medium sized teams since 2008

Experience

Application Developer - Highland Solutions

October 2014 - February 2018 (Full-time, remote)

Part of a cross-functional agile team with a medium-sized company working on anything from direct customer support to major projects, mostly on SugarCRM. A client list ranging from health insurance, food services, finance and manufacturing. Worked across all departments and teams on a variety of projects in scope and platform tools.

• Fixed months-old nightly data import project to run from 21+ hours down to 3
• Co-create web app on ZF2 to speed up and streamline access for sales reps to relevant 10% of SugarCRM being used
• Convert legacy script into suite of classes with unit testing, email alerts and logging
• Create and share scripts in Ruby and Go to automate or speed up development and testing
• Built data sync process between SugarCRM and Orgo Sales Engine via REST API
• Added unit testing to AngularJS components and Redis data cleanup to SugarCRM-based web app
• Created Lumen app to extract data and reports from SugarCRM in real-time and nightly turns
• Created bash shell script to handle batch import of 1,000,000 rows into SugarCRM
• Manage and support Jira Software Cloud with streamlined configurations, workflows and Confluence documentation
• Built other REST API integrations between third-party services such as Slack, SugarCRM, Eventbrite, Jira
• Securely handle HIPAA, PII, PCI compliance and data
• Certified SugarCRM Developer Specialist

Tech used: PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, Git, GitHub, bash shell scripting, Backbone.js, Lumen, Laravel 5, Ruby, Codeception, PHPUnit, Mockery, Sinatra, Silex, Zend Framework 2, Redis, Jenkins, AngularJS, Vue.js, LESS, Karma, Jasmine, cron, Vagrant, Go

Web Developer - eLink Designs

April 2014 - October 2014 (Part-time, remote)

Working remotely with a small team of developers and programmers, based in Lexington, Kentucky.

• Assigned as lead developer for one of their anchor B2B e-commerce clients
• Debug, refactor bottlenecks and extend custom legacy CMS
• Help build and refine new version of content management system
• Direct client interaction to handle support and build requests

Tech used: PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, Git, GitLab

Front & Back-End Web Developer - Xenex Media

January 2008 - September 2014 (Part-time, remote)

Lead developer building and fixing 30+ client e-commerce and brochure sites remotely from another state and then another country for small company based in Queensland, Australia.

• Developed XML sync system for 20+ e-commerce stores to import and update inventory data
• Built osCommerce/Loaded Commerce shopping cart modules to show on-the-fly product customisations
• Created sites using custom content management system with Kohana MVC framework with calendar, photo gallery features
• Created survey and registration portal for interior/building construction contractors to obtain/renew licences
• Integrate shopping carts with payment gateways connected with Australian banks and PayPal

Tech used: PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, jQuery, Git, Bitbucket, osCommerce, Loaded Commerce, Kohana MVC, CakePHP, Smarty, PayPal API

Web Developer, Copywriter, Customer Service - the Comic Shop

October 2005 - August 2009

• Designed and developed custom CMS built from ground up using PHP and MySQL, then rebuilt in 2014 to use Laravel 4
• Started relationships with film distributors to run cross-promotions and giveaways for comicbook, horror and animated movies
• Grew direct customer mailing list to 1,000 subscribers
• Casual in-store retail adventures behind the register

Tech used: PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, jQuery, Git, Bitbucket, Laravel 4

PHP Developer - Create Studios

2006 (Part-time)

• osCommerce modules, WordPress template skinning
• Both on-site in a fast-paced studio with occasional remote work

PHP Developer - Think Unthinkable

2006 (Part-time)

• Campaign mini-sites, server-to-server site migrations, HTML email skins
• On-site in a busy studio agency alongside a leading advertising firm

Notes

Preference is Git for version control. Sublime Text for code editing.

Currently developing on Linux and using Docker. Have worked on Mac and Windows.